This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FRANCOIS Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFX.2ACEB/75 Message Board Post: Am not related but may be of interest to someone who is. I have no further info. Vern D /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Transcribed by Dee Sardoch: <[email protected]> To see more old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The San Andreas Independent San Andreas, Calaveras County, CA Saturday, 5 March 1859 ***************************** CORONER'S INQUEST -- On Saturday morning last a man was found dead in his cabin, situated at the lower end of San Andreas, under circumstances which induced Justice LEAKE to summon a Jury of Inquest. The jury found that his name was Herbine Jean FRANCOIS, his age about 55 years; that he was a native of France; and that he came to his death from causes unknown. Deceased, when found, was lying in his bed, with his fingers crooked, muscles contracted and exhibiting other signs of having died from convulsions; but of the truth of this supposition nothing could be known, as he had neither intimate friend or domestic associate. For 6 years he had been known in town; always industrious, and apparently always unsocial, living in the same little hut, with not even a cat or a dog to disturb the monotony of his solitude. His arrangements for living were so minute and complete that there was no room to suspect that he anticipated death. He had his wine, flour, bacon, fish, condiments, a great collection of wearing apparel, his winter's fuel, all cut up and neatly stowed away under cover. And thus, surrounded by the simple paraphernalia of life, the poor old man, far from the soothing hand of love or friendship -- far from his "sunny France," laid down and died.